List plants whose name refers to an animal

C

  • Horn-of-stag

D

G

L

  • Plantain
  • Language-of-ox
  • Hart's tongue: variety of scolopendre (scolopendre being also a name of animal)
  • Hound's tongue
  • Language-of-sparrow
  • Butterwort
  • Easter-bell starwort
  • Language-of-snake
  • Milk-with ass

O

  • Eye of ox
  • Eye-of-cow
  • Ear-with ass: large the Consound (known as also plantain lancéolé in Normandy) and molene in Provence
  • Ear of elephant: decorative plant with very broad sheets (known as also colocase of the marshes )
  • Ear of man: variety of Asaret
  • Ear of bear: variety of Primula
  • Ear of goat: variety of Centaury
  • Ear of Judas
  • Ear of hare: lancéolé plantain; chews
  • Oreille of wolf: variety of Primula
  • Ear of wolf: variety of Primula
  • Ear of rat: ceraist; chews (Ain, the Jura). ( the Large Robert , 2003)
  • Mouse-ear: translation of the Greek " Forget-me-not "

Ear of or of

" One can thus formulate the rule; ear of animal means “medicinal or pot herb with sheets broad and punts, lengthened or round according to the case, and generally duvetées”. The interest of this definition is that it is common to all the plants of the series. The specific variations are very few owing to the fact that only the mammals have ears and that they are differentiated little. Most characteristic are those of the ass and hare, more or less synonymic, and those of the rat which indicate a mass of small sheets round or slightly ovalized like that of “corn salad or the forget-me-not”. Because it is of its sheets that the latter draws here its name (as besides in Greek)… Presque all these plants have fluffy sheets which oppose them to the languages (...) appreciably of the same sheets forms lengthened, but on smooth surface. But this distinction is not always maintained and much of ears exchange their name with languages (cf “mouse-ear” = ear of rat and language of ewe). "

(Pierre GUIRAUD, etymological Structures of the French lexicon , p. 161.)

P

  • Not-with ass
  • Grease channel
  • Leg of bear
  • Larkspur
  • Foot-of-cock
  • Crowfoot
  • Foot of griffon
  • Rabbit-foot clover
  • Bird's foot
  • Hound's-tooth
  • Cuckoo pint
  • Hair-of-goat
  • Hair-of-goat
  • Hair-of-dog
  • Foot-of-wolf

Q

  • Tail-of-horse
  • Tail-with squirrel
  • Tail-of-hare
  • Tail-of-fish: variety of bad driving of a car
  • Rat-tailed file: variety of file - plant?
  • Tail-of-fox
  • Scorpion's tail: variety of Cyme (cyme scorpioïde)
  • Rat's tail cactus: to see Foxtail of the fields

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